The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

The state of TV

matt | November 30, 2009

So, Liz and I were really jonesing for a TiVo HD… and then all the interesting shows went off the air. Let’s run down the list:

Battlestar Galactica: Done (and the ending sucked)

Monk: Finishing up

Sarah Connor Chronicles: Canceled

Firefly: Canceled (years ago, and I’m still sore about it)

Dollhouse: Canceled

So, what does that leave?

Big Bang Theory

Good Eats

Psych

Iron Chef [...]

Miscellany

matt | November 19, 2009

Back from Carnage. Great con. Played in:

The Unexplained. Lots of fun. Bought it.

Heavy Gear Blitz. Decent, but likely won’t pick up yet another minis game. I’m not going to say it’s better or worse than Battletech – just different. Battletech is shoot, shoot, shoot, now you’re in arm’s reach, and you beat the crap out [...]

Humans innnnn spaaaaace…

matt | November 1, 2009

So, I’ve started to read The Foundation Trilogy, and it has me thinking about:

Traveller

Alternity

Full Thrust

(Primarily the last one).
Full Thrust is a very good space combat game, and the rules are available for free from Ground Zero Games website.
The main issue with them is that the rules are spread across 4 books, and later books replace [...]